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Yale 2008 Physics Olympics: Science Fair and Competition for High School Students
These complex problems from the 2008 Physics Olympics at Yale University—an all-day competition between high school teams—allow students to apply basic ideas from physics in a practical context. The event consists of five 35-minute events. Each event is a task or simple experiment that the students perform as a team and for which they obtain a result or measurement. The teams are ordered based on the accuracy of their results, and prizes are awarded to the winning teams. For the 2008 competition, teams had to solve a variety of theoretical and experimental physics problems. They had to make a two-lens telescope to read a sign from a distance; measure the densities of light and heavy gasses in two balloons; construct an electromagnet, powered by two batteries, with the strongest possible field; estimate the number of marbles in a container after experimenting with containers of different volumes; and synchronize three oscillators to allow a beam of light to pass through them. The competition has been hosted by Yale's Department of Physics every year since 1998.
Program Director: Robert J. Wyman, Ph.D.
Award Years: 1989, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
Summary: Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Its HHMI-funded initiatives include:
- Increasing diversity in the sciences through its flagship STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program, which has been nationally recognized for its success in fostering ethnic minority students on their way to science degrees and biomedical careers;
- Improving the quality of teacher training through programs such as the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, which invites teachers to participate in seminars where they create new curricula, and Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program, which trains new science teachers.
- Offering summer residential programs with classes and labs for inner-city high school students, and providing science enrichment in city schools through DEMOS, a program that encourages Yale students to volunteer in school enrichment activities, science demonstrations in the elementary and middle schools and science and math research teams in the upper grades.